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What is Skin Barrier and How You Can Protect it?

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What is Skin Barrier and How You Can Protect it?

It might now look like it, but taking care of your skin is constant hard work, with the most arduous task is maintaining the uppermost layer of your skin— the skin barrier. When your skin barrier is strong, it protects your skin from external stressors and retains moisture. Conversely, damaging your skin barrier is to open Pandora’s box of problems, which includes irritation, redness, and premature aging.

What is Your Skin Barrier?

The skin barrier is the outermost layer of your epidermis, which lies above the dermis and accommodates blood vessels, sweat glands, nerves, and, importantly, collagen and elastin, the two structural proteins that give skin firmness and bounce. The role of the epidermis is to protect the skin from any sort of foreign substance, whether it be bacteria or chemicals. This construction works beautifully to keep hydration in and bacteria and allergens out when the skin barrier is intact. It is safe to say that a healthy skin barrier epitomizes healthy skin.

What is a Damaged Skin Barrier? 

As a depleted lipid barrier results in moisture loss and dehydration, it also makes signs of aging more apparent. The easiest way to understand your moisture barrier is to visualize it as a wall. The bricks in the wall are your cells, while the mortar, in this particular analogy, is the lipid matrix. When the mortar, so to speak, is depleted, irritating ingredients are able to get through the barrier and create reactions on the skin.

As your skin’s reactivity increases, it facilitates enzymes to break down collagen and elastin, thereby accelerating the aging process. However, this does not mean the idea of healthy skin is elusive. Using skincare such as collagen anti-aging serum that is rich in antioxidants and provides moisture to the skin can help restore your skin barrier, revealing healthy, glowing skin. 

How to Repair Your Skin Barrier?

Factors such as over-exfoliation, aggressive scrubbing, and environmental factors can severely impact your skin’s barrier. Your skincare regime can make or break the integrity of your moisture barrier. As a general rule, using ingredients such as humectants and emollients work best in restoring moisture in your skin and preventing further water loss. The collagen anti-wrinkle day cream from Dermaclara gives your skin that perfect boost of hydration. The non-sticky formula is rich in hyaluronic acid, which penetrates deep to smooth, tone, and hydrate dry or damaged skin, making it look healthier, more supple, and youthful. 

Another way to ensure that your skin barrier is to wear sunscreen. Prolonged sun exposure is the primary cause of premature aging. Over time, the sun’s ultraviolet (UV) light damages certain fibers in the skin called elastin. Whether you are spending a day on the beach or simply running errands, sun protection is essential. It is imperative to wear broad-spectrum sunscreen during the day, regardless of weather conditions.

If you are looking for the best collagen-boosting serum that works on wrinkles and helps prevent moisture loss long-term, check out the wide range of skincare products by Dermaclara. 


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